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Obamacare Promises Ring Hollow and the Administration Knew It All Along

During the Obamacare sales pitch we heard from President Obama that "If you like your insurance you can keep it," but Americans have been finding that the reality is far, far and away from what the President promised. First let's rewind the tape back to 2009 when the Obama Administration was spoon-feeding us the wonders and joys of the coming Obamacare utopia.

Remember, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

A 56-year old woman in Florida told CBS news this week that she cannot keep her plan and in fact the new one will cost ten times what she currently pays. Ten times!

"When I got this bill, I was outraged," CBS quotes a 56-year-old Florida resident who got dropped from her health care plan.

Her new plan will be 10 times higher than what she's paying now, jumping from $54 a month to $591.

"What I have right now is what I'm happy with, and I just want to know why I can't keep what I have," says the woman. "Why do I have to be forced into something else?"

Don't forget, "If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you."

Let's take a look at how many people have not been able to keep their plan, because that poor woman in Florida is not an isolated case.

David Hogberg did a tally of those who have lost their plans so far, however, as he notes, this is not an exhaustive list.

But how many people have received these notices? Let’s do a tally: -800,000 in New Jersey. -119,000 from Blue Shield in California. -160,000 from Kaiser in California. -300,000 in Florida. -24,000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -13,000 in central and eastern Pennsylvania. -76,000 from CareFirst in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

That adds up to 1,492,000 cancellations. And that number is low as similar cancellation notices have gone out in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. We also know that Humana has cancelled policies in Maryland. Unfortunately, no numbers are available thus far in those cases.

But wait, "If you like your insurance you can keep it."

This estimate of roughly 1.5 million Americans being cancelled may just be a drop in the bucket though. A doomsday scenario puts the potential total of Americans who could lose their individual insurance plan at 16 million people. Now that may be a little high, but you get the point. This panacea of health care affordability has turned out to be anything but that for millions of our fellow citizens, and the tally is just beginning.

Millions of Americans have been hurt, not helped by Obamacare.

But we were promised! “Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you. First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”

Turns out that the Obama Administration knew this wasn't true all along. That's right, they knew that because of new requirements under the ACA that as many as 67 percent of individuals who purchase their own plans would not be able to keep them. In other words; they lied.

Rusty Weiss, a fellow blogger here at FreedomWorks, has done a great job of cataloging the damage caused by Obamacare in his Obamacare Job Graveyard. Thousands of Americans have already lost their jobs because of the President's signature legislation. Thousands more have had their hours cut so they can fall under the 30 hour mark set as the level where employers must begin offering health care coverage under law.

Now we find out that President Obama knew what he was saying all along wasn't true. You were never going to be able to keep your plan. Once again, we told you, but it doesn't feel a bit good to be right.

Ah yes... I looked this up and interestingly enough, This story is ALL OVER mainly conservative-leaning sites and blogs and other non-news type sites. The source comes from the National Center for Public Policy Research, which if you look up on wikipedia is basically a conservative think tank. I suppose it all makes sense, seeing as how the Tea Party is more or less the same sort of thing. But moving on, the reason that people are being dropped from current plans is that these plans in question do not meet what the Affordable Care Act requires, when it begins January 1st. At which point those consumers can enroll in the newer plans, which in most cases will actually offer better coverage at a comparable cost. Why? Because as previously stated they were dropped from their current plan simply because the plans they were on did not meet new and improved requirements. So basically this latest conservative media blitz is nothing more than taking only one small part of the story and conveniently forgetting to mention the other half of the real situation at hand. As I had said in a previous post, its clear that trying to shut down the government failed to stop Obamacare and so now it seems that the tone has changed and like clockwork, plan B has come out on the floor: simply trash talk Obamacare and try to make it sound as bad as possible. I've got a better idea: Instead of spending enormous amounts of time and money trying to accomplish something that is prone to failure, why not focus on something else? Like maybe actually helping Republican constituents versus trying to sell them on things that go against their self interests?

(Artist: Gary Varvel, The Indianapolis Star, 2010)In its first nine months, the ObamaCare “tanning bed tax” raised only $54.4 million, barely one-third of the roughly $150 million predicted when the controversial — and costly — health care law was being debated in Congress.

The trouble with legislation today is that the devil is in the details, and those details are usually created by the federal bureaucracy. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as ObamaCare, was signed into law on March 23rd, 2010. So, why is it a surprise that some religious institutions, particularly Catholic hospitals and universities, will be required by law to provide contraceptives in their employee health care plans?

Democracy and Power 101: Government is power In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, and cruelty. – Leo Tolstoy

On November 8th, Ohio voters will decide on two critical ballot initiatives, Issues 2 & 3, that have national implications for the Tea Party movement. If both measures pass it will be a huge victory in our efforts to stop ObamaCare and the corrupt influence of Big Labor.

We did it! We took down CLASS!
Today the White House officially pulled the plug on the CLASS Act, a key component of ObamaCare.
This is a huge development in the health care debate.
CLASS -- a Great Society style home care entitlement authored by liberal lion Ted Kennedy -- was enacted in 2010 as part of ObamaCare.
But CLASS was poorly designed and actuarially unsound, and represented a massive taxpayer bailout risk.

A trove of just-released internal Obama Administration documents reveals that the President's top health care advisors were fully aware that a key component of ObamaCare presented a massive taxpayer bailout risk, but they chose to suppress the information in their frenzy to push the controversial legislation through Congress.

A trove of just-released internal Obama Administration documents reveals that the President's top health care advisors were fully aware that a key component of ObamaCare presented a massive taxpayer bailout risk, but chose to suppress the information in their frenzy to push the controversial bill through Congress.
The documents, quoted extensively in a report released yesterday the House Energy & Commerce Committee, reveal a shocking level of cynicism by the President's team -- cynicism that will cost Americans billions unless the unpopular ObamaCare law is fully repealed.